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Tony Way

English actor

Summary

English actor

Field	Value
name	Tony Way
birth_date
birth_place	Rochford, Essex, England
occupation	Actor, writer, comedian
years_active	1994–present

Tony Paul Way (born 7 October 1978) is an English actor, comedian, and writer. He is best known for playing characters in a number of British comedy TV series including Extras, After Life, Black Books and Bang, Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer, as well as comedy movies including Sightseers and Ali G Indahouse. He has since moved into drama, appearing as Plague in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Dontos Hollard in HBO's Game of Thrones, and Thomas Nashe in Anonymous.

Career

Way started his career in comedy and acting at the age of 17 when he, Rhys Thomas, Stephen Burge, and Glynne Wiley started making comedy videos as sketch group Stay Alive Pepi while at college. The videos were noticed by Bob Mortimer and Charlie Higson, who gave Way his first television appearances in a sketch on The Fast Show and in several sketches in Bang, Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer. Way went on to write for and perform in more comedy shows, including Blunder, Mongrels, Extras, Spaced, and Tittybangbang.

Way has also performed in television shows and films, including The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Anonymous, Tunnel of Love, Finding Neverland, Cheeky, Ali G Indahouse, Fairytales, Down Terrace and Sightseers. From 2012 to 2014, Way appeared as Ser Dontos Hollard on HBO's Game of Thrones. In 2014, he appeared in the sci-fi film Edge of Tomorrow, and made an appearance on Doctor Who. Since 2013 he has played Terry in BBC Radio 4 sitcom Seekers, written by his college friend and collaborator Stephen Burge. Way also still regularly works with Rhys Thomas on the Thomas and Way Podcast, which they have been recording irregularly since 2011.

Personal life

Way was born in Rochford, Essex, grew up in nearby Wickford, and lives in the London Borough of Hackney.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role
2000	Cheeky	Rick
2002	Ali G Indahouse	Dave
2004	Finding Neverland	Set Mover
Tunnel of Love	Spiff
2008	Trimming the Fat	James "Hendy" Henderson
2009	Beyond the Pole	Landlord
Down Terrace	Garvey	Winner Fantastic Fest – Best Feature and Best Screenplay & Best British Film at London's Raindance Film Festival
2010	London Boulevard	Lone Pap
2011	Anonymous	Thomas Nashe
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Plague
2012	Sightseers	Crich Tourist
2013	Gus and His Dirty Dead Dad	Taxi Gavin
Convenience	Stoner 2
2014	Legend of the Golden Fishcake	Gavin
The Riot Club	Mugger
Edge of Tomorrow	Kimmel
2015	Brand New-U	Gun Dealer/Santa
Aaaaaaaah!	Sitcom Lee
High-Rise	Robert the Caretaker
Trespass Against Us	Norman
2016	Mindhorn	Dad with Newspaper
2024	Here	Ted
2025	Red Sonja	Dane the Blacksmith

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	The Fast Show	New Boy
1998–2001	Eleven O'Clock Show		Writer
1999	Bang, Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer	Various characters
Small Potatoes	Elwood
Spaced	Paper Boy
2000–2001	Randall and Hopkirk	Hammer of God
2000–2004	Black Books	Cinema Clerk/Burger Boy
2000–2011	My Family	Himself	Guest cast
2001–2002	Fun at the Funeral Parlour	Gwynne Thomas
2003–2004	Hardware	Cliff
2004	EastEnders	Nick
2005	Monkey Trousers	Various characters
Extras	Chef
2005–2007	Tittybangbang
2006	Blunder		Writer
2008	Fairy Tales	Rapunzel
No Heroics	Praying Mantis
The Wall	Various characters	Writer
Torn Up Tales	Clint "The Beast" Beastwood
2008–2009	Crash	Various characters	Writer
2009–2011	Shooting Stars	Various characters	Writer
The Impressions Show	Various characters	Writer
2009	2009 Unwrapped with Miranda Hart	Arthur
2010	Money	Fat Paul
Mongrels	Gary
Above Their Stations	Techno Benson
2011	Life's Too Short
2012	Sherlock	Prison Warden
2012; 2014	Game of Thrones	Ser Dontos Hollard
2013	Fit	Various
2014	Derek	Pete
Doctor Who	Alf
Not Going Out	Tony
The Life of Rock with Brian Pern	Ned/Captain Cupnutz/Rick Parfitt
2015	Asylum	Alan
Pompidou	Merrick
Drunk History	Various characters
House of Fools	Punter/Butcher Brother
Inside No. 9	Michael
Murder in Successville	Harry Styles
SunTrap	Glenn
Jekyll and Hyde	Silas
2016	Brian Pern: 45 Years of Prog and Roll	Ned
2016–2017	Zapped	Chestnut
2017	Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams	Carmichael
Tracey Breaks the News	Various characters
2018	Collateral	Conor
Silent Witness	Gordon Jarrow
2019–2022	After Life	Lenny
2019	Giri/Haji	Roy
2020	Mandy	Sergei
Des	Dyno Rod Engineer
2025	Midsomer Murders	Freddy Westcott	Episode: "Treasures of Darkness"

Radio

Seekers (BBC Radio 4) – Terry
Thomas and Way Podcast
The Don't Watch With Mother Sketchbook – Various characters, also writer

Stage

Richard Sandlings Perfect Movie – Queen's Head, London
Lenny Beige's Night of Legends – Pigalle Club, London
Oram and Meeten's Club Fantastico – Lowdown, The Albany, London
Stay Alive Pepi – Canal Cafe, London
Stay Alive Pepi – Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh
Stay Alive Pepi – De Hems, London

References

(31 October 2011). "Anonymous: Interview With Tony Way".
(15 October 2010). "Down Terrace (2010) Review".
(21 April 2014). "The Game of Thrones Exit Interview: The Drunk Knight Who Saved Sansa (and Maybe Killed Joffrey) Talks Postmortem".
(22 October 2014). "Tony Way talks Ser Dontos, Purple Wedding, Sansa & Littlefinger".
(6 June 2014). "'Edge of Tomorrow' Review".
(30 January 2014). "Tony Way's Appointment With The Doctor".

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